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Wellington Botanic Garden, 1910

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Wellington Botanic Garden, 1910

Wellington Botanic Garden served as a colonial nursery and trial garden during the later part of the 19th century. Its founder, James Hector, planted rectangular beds as a teaching garden. In 1910 these beds were still in use, and are visible under the grove of cabbage trees.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Sydney Charles Smith Collection (PA-Group-00242)

Reference: 1/1-020191; G

by Sydney Charles Smith

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Maggy Wassilieff, Public gardens – Types of public garden, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18809/wellington-botanic-garden-1910 (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.